Re: Differences between builtins and modules

Sorry I didn't see this mail until now - RE: Randy Dunlap wrote: > Would someone please answer/reply to this (related) kernel bugzilla entry: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118661 Yes, I raised this bug because I think modinfo should return 0 exit status if

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

Sorry I didn't see this mail until now - RE: Randy Dunlap wrote: > Would someone please answer/reply to this (related) kernel bugzilla entry: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118661 Yes, I raised this bug because I think modinfo should return 0 exit status if a requested module is

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On 02/24/2015 05:02 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek wrote: >> On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >>> This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was >>> tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean.

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On 02/24/2015 05:02 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek wrote: >> On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >>> This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was >>> tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Michal Marek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek wrote: >> > On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> >> My questions are: >> >> 1) should we put *all* the "modules" in

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz wrote: On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: My questions are: 1) should we put *all* the

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > > On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > >> My questions are: > >> 1) should we put *all* the "modules" in the builtin index? > > > > You mean all *.o files that do

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:02:55PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz wrote: On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: My questions are: 1) should we put *all* the modules in the builtin index? You mean all *.o files that do not

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Harish Jenny Kandiga Nagaraj wrote: > > On Monday 23 February 2015 09:21 PM, Michal Marek wrote: >> On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > Can we add some flag like > KMOD_PROBE_FORCE_DIRECTORY_CHECK = 0x00040, > and pass it to kmod_module_get_initstate to

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was >> tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if >> this is common to happen in kernel. Any code that

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Monday 23 February 2015 09:21 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was >> tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if >> this is common to happen in kernel. Any code

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Monday 23 February 2015 09:21 PM, Michal Marek wrote: On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if this is common to happen in kernel. Any code that did

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Michal Marek mma...@suse.cz wrote: On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if this is common to happen in kernel. Any code

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Harish Jenny Kandiga Nagaraj harish_kand...@mentor.com wrote: On Monday 23 February 2015 09:21 PM, Michal Marek wrote: On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: Can we add some flag like KMOD_PROBE_FORCE_DIRECTORY_CHECK = 0x00040, and pass it to

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: > This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was > tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if > this is common to happen in kernel. Any code that did "modprobe > " would start to fail. I think it's quite

Differences between builtins and modules

Changing the subject because this is unrelated to the patch to kmod. It was: [PATCH] libkmod-module: Remove directory existence check for KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN CC'ing Michael Marek who created the modules.builtin file a while ago. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Rusty,

Differences between builtins and modules

Changing the subject because this is unrelated to the patch to kmod. It was: [PATCH] libkmod-module: Remove directory existence check for KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN CC'ing Michael Marek who created the modules.builtin file a while ago. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Rusty Russell

Re: Differences between builtins and modules

On 2015-02-23 15:30, Lucas De Marchi wrote: This could be particularly bad if in a kernel version an option was tristate and in a new version it changed to boolean. I'm not sure if this is common to happen in kernel. Any code that did modprobe module would start to fail. I think it's quite